The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-12
ODDS AND ENDS.

OD1o AND EtsUS. E.
No less than 357, 600 persons v;.,,,,
cemeteries Of Paris on All Saints, DsT@ s
Farmer BiggerstafI, Of Richmond y.
Gently plowed up a dozen army ersisa
which were AZ fresh as when the Cow
forces abandoned them twenty.fye vassss
An English writer, at the time Rbas1
Lytton was Vlceroy of India, describas
as the man with the appearance of an HI
organ-grInder and the moralso Of the nm q
monkey.
The Duke Of Braganza recently said 4. =
the proprletles OF his station in life dS
forbid it he would follow Mme. PANE
eyeryeottfne she sings.
Al remedies for catarrhssthousandsS
sons daily use snuff and other gt1f n
action is to i~rritate the lining membrs,.
thus caHse-more catarrh. There ia nSa
better than common washing soda dim Il
water, and twice a day shifted thorn
well through the nostrils. Many persnSss
only salt and water. E
A recent issue Of the Pekin Gazeteconsl
an imperial decree peremptorily forh%F
III the future ally abbreyiation Of tbe ~
of provinces, persons, places, ate, n
MORALS addressed to the throne IN
officials Of the Chinese Empire. Such M
viations are considered breaches Of sEira
and cannot be tolerated.
One of the best remedies for insoums
said to be: Wet half n towel; apply III
back of the neck, pressing it up toward
base OF the brain, and fasten the dry Mi
the towel over so as to prevent too rsbH
halatIon. The effect is prompt and plesssI
cooling the brain and bringing oia a.
,l,,-,lrr JIaT-ra 1H-n tAr. Ig hn44E. IT. &t
To those suffering from Mental overwurk
element or anxiety this remedy muStn
a blessing.
From China papers Of recent date i y
nears that the authorities of Pekin hsEs II
Gently taken a census Of the empire, md
it was for taxing purposes the proneles
disbelieve in the large estimates mus
modified accordingly. The figures Fetgrl
by the village baiiiffs make The popaaS
$40, 3S3, 500, which, together with the
innate Of five provinces omitted, makE
aggregate about 392, 900, 600. Thee
ures ,he independent of the populated
Corea, Thibet and hashgar. As the pWs
ton of India exceeds $50, 600, 06a, 4.
Hindoos and Chinese constitute more
half the entire human race.
Nathaniel NJ. Jackman recently dieors
that a colony of bees had settled in the
OF his house in Salem, Mass. They SEQ
TO have been there for several years, dad
cupied a space a foot in width and sF5
feet deep. Carpenters trying to repair
roof were driven off several tins. d
finally an offer wa made of all the honsg
any one WHO would drive away the b
Charles T6pes took the contract, and H
ceeded in getting a wash tub nearytE
filed with fine honey from the inside d
wall. The bees, however. refused to 60 4
all attempts to drive them away BY mp
smoke and other smIdges failed.
A perfect craze has sprung up IN Germ
for the collection of postage stamps, and 4
| MI by any means confined, as in Eneln
to schoolboys and hobby riders, butte Ata
| to grown people engaged IN E8Tious vi
7 Of life, p~ostoffice and other on aals, ca
| young business men, etc. The passls
| regarded by some as q sort Of madness
the German Postmaster General ~recagr
both method and reason in the madness aR
| he has given the BriefmdrkeHSdnMaAg
high patronage. DR.. Won Stephan tt4ss
that If young men become interested
foreign postage stamps they will ct tles
time take interest in the countries TafI
the stamps come. Stamp collecting i, ~
fore, to be the future royal road TO the -
ing of geography and q means OF eoIalaes
education.
The death is announced from Vents
Baron de Hellenbach, q fervent heilsgs
Spiritualism and the author OF seyeralm
on that subject. He turned his Daek W
Vienna four years ago, indignant @
treatmenl which q certain AnleIrlGah y
dukes Rudolph and John. Ii VIII be e.
| lected that by a clever confr1Tanee i
| closed the door by pulling two strings
thereby caught q very substantial gasA
| socks and with q gray cassock GOVERNS
evening dress. Baron de Heiie1naeA ~
yout believer in the manifestations
| playing soft music on the piano at tnaa
when the Archduke John puhilsna E
pamphlet throwing LIGHT upon these ~
esting feats, the baron wrote an lnaszNz
reply and then went to st. PETERSBURG 80
he found sympathetic FRIENDS IA -
and other ardent disciples OF Splfl5usASH
Awriter in the Boston Herald says:
sar girls have their uses. l never Aasss
recently, what accomplished beings VI
turned out, though report nas SUI
graduate to be able to grapple Win znss
| ahstruse subjects in every uepailasa
life. If she wishes to, Vassar Away ~
the head. As far 4s | am concerned. w
never gone there to stay. Ihe nlgha n
| tional belt is hers. And what nas W
done to win this edifying position
| lastic ranks She has toasted mais9l
lows! Only this, and nothing nor ols:
you ever eaten a toasted arsnmaAos y
| then. a new sensation awaits JouI
Huvier-sated palate. And to think
student should be the first Il. laLIoaaatT
| s~eusuous CONNECTION to a sinful Wotias
rs forgive her for knowing wee aii hass
her Is, 900, 600 buekwhest caAss, ~ y
pencils and her pickles, and reneMIe h
the ecstacy of swallowing th0se aaaA4
ing humps of fragrance"
The gathered statistics OF tne mOala ri
it is claimed, that woman nas ! ~
tenacity Of life than man, and tnal Y
brew women are the Longest nSsa :
race, Then, too. among InsectS, ~
Dcrishes at a relatively GARNER pplns
plants, the seminate blossoms 0l pa,hs
and ale produced in the weaker I ansgs
female quadrupdls have more J san;Sb
than males. In the human race, VIZ ds
intellectual and physicalstreneNl9 1R
the woman endures longest anu r +
pain to which the strong. mal ssR
Xymotic diseases are more fatal ~ III
more male children die thai Iep,s lns
yerga asserts that the pfoporlonaa 1 r,asI
| denly is about 100 women 70 Z " rasssh
temperance, apoplexy, gout, Eg.er mi
affections of the heart or Hxeis iss
paralysis, are more fatal 20 lls1fSnt
males, while pulmonary ~ fsttse
| other hand, is more deadly W w NJ iii
males in cities being. more plohr
ease than are those III the counal mr,nre D
there are from 2 to 6 per cens : sycs
born than females, yet there y +; r. m
more than 6 per cent OF females ~ S